free-diving

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Free diving does not involve the use of external breathing devices, but relies on a diver's ability to hold his or her breath until resurfacing.Free diving is limited in depth and time, but for some purposes it may be suitable.…

She holds numerous records in different categories of free diving.Though still in the middle of her career, she is already considered to be one of the all time greats in the sport.…

They try out the dangerous challenge of free diving - deep diving without breathing apparatus.Next Jack takes the team on a kayaking trip down the remote volcanic coastline, ending up in a night on a deserted beach.…

Several regattas take place at the city's coast.Also, it is popular for many other watersports, including scuba and free diving.The waters around the archipelago are filled with more than 50 shipwrecks, six of them being opened for visiting via diving.…

Jacques Mayol's lifelong passion for diving was based on his love for the ocean, his personal philosophy and his desire to explore his own limits.During his lifetime, he helped introduce the, until then, elitist sport of free-diving into the main stream.His diving philosophy was to reach a state of mind based on relaxation and Yoga, with which he could accomplish Apnea.…

Mike Rutzen is an expert on the great white shark and an outspoken champion of shark conservation.His fame spread due to the images of his free diving exploits swimming with the animals without a cage.Mike has spent more time swimming cage-less with great whites than anyone else.…

In Kalymnos, only 18% of the steep volcanic land could be cultivated, so the main professions were trading, boat building and sponge fishing, which perhaps was the oldest profession on the island.Diving for sponges brought social and economical development to the island where the free-diving method was used.Kalymnos was the main centre of production in the Aegean, and still now is a traditional occupation with related exhibitions, along with other local folklore, at three local museums.…

The film 'White as Blood' screened in several countries and charted a personal journey of coming home.She has worked with an array of top athletes coaching the lessons of mental strength learned in free-diving.…

The three sports chosen for these Games were finswimming, free-diving and spearfishing.The two free-diving events was contested at the Sports complex Mansiche's pool.…

In Cape Town I Am Water began working with youth from local townships and began teaching them about the oceans and free diving.I Am Water taught ten young kids free diving techniques and yoga stretches along with basic ocean knowledge.Then the group went for a dive with seals in Hout Bay.…

They immediately developed a relationship and Mestre soon moved to Miami, Florida to live with Ferreras.There, she took up serious free-diving and with Ferreras as her instructor was soon reaching record depths.In 1999 the two diving aficionados married and the following year, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Audrey Mestre broke the female world record by free diving to a depth of 125 metres (410 ft) on a single breath of air.…

They are usually bright yellow or orange and have a device that allows users to inflate or deflate the device to adjust their buoyancy.However, these devices hinder and prevent a snorkeler from free diving to any depth.Especially in cooler water, a wetsuit of appropriate thickness and coverage may be worn; wetsuits do provide some buoyancy without as much resistance to submersion.…

The three sports chosen for these Games were finswimming, free-diving and spearfishing.The two free-diving events was contested at the Sports complex Mansiche's pool.The long distance finswimming was held at Salaverry.…

The title is awarded in several different sports, such as ice hockey, football, athletics, free diving, miniature golf, and others.

The Kalymnians harvested sponges from the sea-bed as close as Pserimos or as far as North Africa.Early diving was done without equipment (free diving), using a harpoon.…

One of the navy research teams, Dr Karl Schaefer (US Navy) and Dr Robert Allison of the Scott White clinic in Tempel Texas, had done research on diving mammals that demonstrated that air-breathing animals could go to half a mile and deeper without experiencing thoracic squeeze.The discovery of the "blood shift" phenomenon opened a host of theories regarding free diving humans.Croft served as that research subject to determine if that same "blood shift" occurred in humans and measure it.…

Victims are often established practitioners of breath-hold diving, are fit, strong swimmers, and have not experienced problems before.Many drowning and near drowning events occur among swimmers who black out underwater while free-diving or doing breath-hold pool laps.Blacking out, or greying out, near the end of a breath-hold dive is common.…

In 2002 he set the world free diving record without any breathing apparatus at 162 meters.His first world record was 137 meters (1999).…

Survivors of deep water blackout are typically puzzled as to why they blacked out.Breath-hold diving is often referred to elsewhere as dynamic apnoea diving or free-diving.Blackout may also be referred to as a syncope (medicine) or fainting.…